Independent MLA Robyn Lambley will call for a parliamentary inquiry into the NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption when parliament returns next month. It follows a string of scandals over the corruption watchdog's six-year history.
A parliamentary inquiry into the Northern Territory's corruption watchdog will be called for when the Legislative Assembly sits next month.The proposed inquiry will need the support of the new Country Liberal Party government if it is to be established.An NT independent MLA will call for a parliamentary inquiry into the NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption when parliament returns next month, saying the anti-corruption body has weakened the Northern Territory's reputation.
"Now we are entering a new parliament with a new government, a new CLP government, hopefully they will have an appetite to really dig down and try and fix this terrible mess up," she said. This, she said, would help solve inherent conflict of interest concerns in a jurisdiction as small as the NT. An investigation has found the NT's Independent Commissioner Against Corruption did not improperly offer money to his estranged wife to suppress domestic violence allegations.
At Senate estimates in June this year, Ms Loudon declined to clarify what the nature of her conflict was. Ms Finocchiaro's CLP government has an overwhelming majority in parliament and any inquiry would need its backing.
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